He says : `` Beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress , as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism , should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United_States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy '' .

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit - when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands - two purposes were served : Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will , and law became a rational system for implementing that will , for serving conscious goals , for embodying the `` public policy '' .

(Richard S. Prather, "The Bawdy Beautiful," Cavalier...)

ZING was the creation of two men , Louis_Thor and Bill_Blake , partners in ZING !

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives , however , from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Other interpretations present the music as an essentially intimate creation .